Harry Monk:
Let’s hope they’re better at fiddling their tacho than they are at distilling vodka.
Well, honestly, if anybody could point to one single advantage of the eastern Europeans arriving here then I would be prepared to listen to their thesis.There just isn’t one.
You’ll regret saying that Harry if Horace sees this. Expect a full 23 page essay.
Hah, indeed I missed that one. Obviously I was to busy.
But anyway, Harry can use the search engine, I told it all already But I doubt he want to, he is happy with his ignorance. He claims that we cannot make wodka, when it’s us who invited it
I thought only the scots [wee voddy] and girls drank Vodka. Its an Eastern European thing then?
They make it near me [Halewood International]. 37.5 proof and not 40%
switchlogic:
I thought all your foods were in the ethnic section of most British supermarkets, so we can all steer clear
You would be surprised how much of “British” food is done in Poland, or of Polish ingredients.
When I was working on Hebrides, some local products were made from Polish ingredients. I know it becase I was delivering them
Having been a fridge driver for a good few years I can safely say there is no such thing as British or Polish or anything else food. Delicacies yes but most of what we eat has at some point started abroad. Even meat that’s labelled British or Polish or whatever does not need to have been reared or killed in that country, merely processed. Ingredients come from everywhere, and most of the big food companies aren’t British anyway, or Polish for that matter.
switchlogic:
I thought all your foods were in the ethnic section of most British supermarkets, so we can all steer clear
You would be surprised how much of “British” food is done in Poland, or of Polish ingredients.
When I was working on Hebrides, some local products were made from Polish ingredients. I know it becase I was delivering them
Having been a fridge driver for a good few years I can safely say there is no such thing as British or Polish or anything else food. Delicacies yes but most of what we eat has at some point started abroad. Even meat that’s labelled British or Polish or whatever does not need to have been reared or killed in that country, merely processed. Ingredients come from everywhere, and most of the big food companies aren’t British anyway, or Polish for that matter.
Anyway, back to magnets!
That might be true for Britain. As for Poland, despite that many companies are owned by foreign big players, they still do most of food from Polish ingredient - because they are good, cheap and local.
Don’t be so sure. Just because it’s labelled as being from somewhere doesn’t mean it’s from there.
Although maybe your right. As the recent controversy over egg products from Poland has shown polish ingredients are indeed cheap. The controversy being of course that it seems Polish farmers have no intention of complying with EU laws coming in next year over chicken welfare whereas the UK is almost fully compliant already putting British egg producers at a commercial disadvantage.
“Countries like Poland and Hungary have been buying our old battery cages with the intention of continuing to produce eggs under what we consider were appalling conditions”
switchlogic:
“Countries like Poland and Hungary have been buying our old battery cages with the intention of continuing to produce eggs under what we consider were appalling conditions”
Typical British journalism. Poland bad, booooooo, Britain cool, wooooow
Somehow they forgot to write that the same problem is in Spain, Italy and France. All these countries also failed to convert their chicken farm on time, but, unlike Poland, they push Brusssels to move the deadline for them
As for the matter of fact, I was reading that many chicken farmers in Poland ignored completely oncoming deadline and actually indeed bought some more cages in hope to push goverment to fight with Burssels to extend the transition period, but goverment told them to ■■■■ off. They say (quite rightly) that they had enough time to convert.
This is a bad news for these farmers, who hoped that they will buy this no longer needed cages from other countries, then push goverment to cover for them and they will make a fortune by being able to sell cheaper eggs while everyone else had to comply to the new rules. I am glad that they failed on that and goverment earned my respect by refusing to support them.
Saying that, now the chicken farms won’t be ready on time and because of that Poland will have to pay harsh penalties to the European budget. But the ministry of agriculture says that they will make it up by fining the farmers who haven’t complied to the new legislation.
switchlogic:
“Countries like Poland and Hungary have been buying our old battery cages with the intention of continuing to produce eggs under what we consider were appalling conditions”
switchlogic:
Don’t be so sure. Just because it’s labelled as being from somewhere doesn’t mean it’s from there.
if you label product as made in Poland and it comes from somewhere else, you are committing an offence. At least in Poland
Although maybe your right. As the recent controversy over egg products from Poland has shown polish ingredients are indeed cheap. The controversy being of course that it seems Polish farmers have no intention of complying with EU laws coming in next year over chicken welfare whereas the UK is almost fully compliant already putting British egg producers at a commercial disadvantage.
Brilliant example of how your attitude makes you telling some small lies and missing the truth only to show how bad is Poland.
Recent controversy over egg product is just the academic discussion, beacuse caged farms will be banned only from January 2012. So as for now, everyone can sell eggs from such farms, no matter if he is British, Polish or German, and it is fully legal (not that I would buy such eggs, but this is a different story).
You are right that some of Polish farmers had no intention of complying with EU laws, but they hopes of goverment backing them failed (unlike in some Western European countries who demanded in Brussels for deadline to be moved).
yet, as till 31 Dec 2012, selling of eggs from caged farms will be as illegal in Poland as it will be in UK and everywhere else in Europe. You can read it in the article I linked in other post, if you can read Polish The only exception is that if you have eggs made that way in storage, you can sell them, but only on local market, and only to the industrial use - you can sell them to the shops etc.
Well now you know why British food, well meat and animal products at least, have such a high price. There’s plenty of things wrong with this country but we are world leaders in animal welfare. I only got into this debate because you seem to want to make out food in the UK is crap, when it’s clearly not the case. If you think food here is rubbish your shopping in the wrong places.
Coffeeholic:
I’m confused. Are the magnets made in Poland or Britain?
Magnets are lied by the Polish non-UE-complaint chickens in a evil attempt to bring UK transport industry to it’s knees
Only switchlogic’s alter ego, Capitain Britain, can save us now!
Get over yourself. Your the one who drags every post he comments on to Poland. You look at Poland as some sort of rose tinted utopia. You’ll find plenty of posts on here where I moan about the UK. We’re far from perfect. Unlike your beloved Poland, that you don’t live in.
Blah blah blah. You will find many posts when I moan about Poland, and then, as you rightly pointed, I decided to leave here, so obviously your teory about rose tinted glasses is not working…
But from the other hand: you seems to have a problem - you complain about UK, all right, but you just cannot stand to hear that Poland is better in something. For you even the worse things in UK has to be better than the best in Poland.
Well, Poland is not the best country in the world, nor it is UK, but some things are better in UK than in Poland and some things are better in Poland than in UK.
Expect a full 23 page essay.
But I doubt he want to, he is happy with his ignorance. He claims that we cannot make wodka, when it’s us who invited it 
